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Recent Examples of firing squadIdaho lawmakers first passed legislation in 2023 allowing for the firing squad as a means of execution if drugs are unavailable, or lethal injection is found to be unconstitutional.—Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 21 July 2025 Idaho will soon use a firing squad to carry out the death penalty — the only state to shoot prisoners to death as its primary method of execution.—Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 17 July 2025 In Indonesia, drug smugglers are sometimes executed by way of a firing squad.—Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 3 June 2025 Short of firing squads and nationalizing much of the economy (see: Russia, 1917; Cuba, 1959), the only possible answer is massive, confiscatory taxes.—Kyle Khan-Mullins, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for firing squad
The north was expected to be America’s rear guard, a place where values like democracy and women’s rights might have taken hold.
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Azam Ahmed,
New York Times,
24 Dec. 2024
And assassins from a coalition of all the local indigenous tribes — out for blood over the murder of Jimmy the Creek, one of their own, last episode — slit the throats of Ming’s rear guard.
Extinguishing their patrol lights and flipping on their headlamps, the Slaughterhouse men patrolled the canals with shotguns cocked, leaping from the boat to grab their dead and pursue their wounded through the canebrake.
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Nathaniel Rich,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
Last November, the Russian military deployed this type of bomber for a joint patrol over the Sea of Japan with Chinese bombers.
Republican Governor Tate Reeves speaks with supporters during an election night watch party at the Refuge Hotel & Conference Center in Flowood, Mississippi, on November 7, 2023.
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Aliss Higham,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Aug. 2025
The weather service issues a flash flood watch when flash flooding is possible.
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